{"id":77846,"date":"2018-02-21T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77846"},"modified":"2018-02-21T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:29:15","slug":"us-navy-rescues-3-fishermen-adrift-for-8-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77846","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Rescues 3 Fishermen Adrift for 8 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"P-8A\"<\/p>\n

Navy Times<\/a> reports the U.S. Navy rescued three fishermen Tuesday who were adrift on a boat in the Pacific Ocean for eight days.<\/p>\n

The men were reported missing Feb. 12 after failing to return from a fishing trip in Micronesia. The men had food and water aboard their 19-foot skiff, but no safety equipment or radios.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Coast Guard based in Guam searched for the men for several days before calling in a Navy team from Japan, who used a P-8A Poseidon plane equipped with advanced radar to find the boat within three hours.<\/p>\n

The Navy said they dropped a kit to the boat containing food, water, medicine and communications equipment before a nearby police boat picked up the fishermen a few hours later.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was incredibly rewarding to be a part of saving lives \u2014 it\u2019s what everyone joins the Navy to do,\u201d said Lt. Miles Schumacher, the tactical coordinator of the Patrol Squadron Eight aircrew.<\/p>\n

Schumacher said in a statement that the P-8A Poseidon aircraft had enabled a \u201cmassive step forward\u201d in the ability of search and rescue teams to search large areas quickly and effectively, even in the farthest corners of the globe.<\/p>\n

Micronesia is about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia, and is home to about 100,000 people. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Successful rescues make my day, especially when \u201cmy\u201d aircraft performs the save. The SAR kit is stored in the weapons bay, and is a vast improvement over the P-3 kit, which was deployed from the main cabin door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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